On Day 4, Habib Marwan dispatched Nicole to Mitch Anderson's apartment to search for a hard drive containing incriminating information. Nicole, posing as an FBIagent, was soon greeted by Jack Bauer and AgentHart, who were also in search of Anderson. While searching the apartment, Hart discovered a secret compartment behind a false wall, which contained the hard drive. Nicole then discreetly killed Hart and attempted to take out Bauer, but was killed herself. Jack then hooked the hard drive up to a laptop and, with Edgar Stiles' help, accessed its contents. On it were a flight simulator and schematics for an F-117 Nighthawk. ("Day 4: 10:00pm-11:00pm")

During Day 9, after Naveed Shabazz was forced to pilot the stolen drones by Margot Al-Harazi, he hid a hard disk drive of evidence under the floorboards of his and his wife Simone's room. Naveed was executed for betrayal, but Simone did not tell her mother about the existence of the disk. After she was badly injured and taken to the CIA London station, Simone was questioned by Kate Morgan for the location of her mother. She gave up the location of her mother's house and told Kate about Naveed's disk, suggesting that it might contain a way into Margot's system. ("Day 9: 4:00pm-5:00pm")

Kate sent a tactical team to Margot's house which they found abandoned. The team was able to locate Naveed's disk and uploaded its contents to the CIA station. Kate then ordered Gavin Leonard to send the data to Chloe O'Brian, who was also attempting to stop Margot. Chloe was able to use the information on the disk to hack into Margot's system, which ultimately allowed her to hack the drone's camera feed and save President Heller. She later used the information to track Margot down to Tundel House. ("Day 9: 6:00pm-7:00pm", "7:00pm-8:00pm")